Can you say 4peat? Unbelievable effort from everyone in the program!
Coach Hetzel with his 8th State Championship in 20 years. Amazing! Amazing assistant coaches helped every step of the way!
Coach Hetzel hit another milestone Friday night, with the 450th win in his 22nd year of coaching at Aquinas. He is averaging 20 wins a year in his career!!!
Saints win the Truman Tournament with a 50-36 win over Liberty.
@alaynaash
with 20 pts, 4 board
@BCCulliton
with 18 pts and 7 boards.
@bipearson
with 8 pts 6 boards 4 assist,
@MadroSkelton32
with 6 assist and 4 boards
When two of the top teams in the city play, its greatly appreciated that
@SpecSportsKC
and
@kmbc
provide coverage and people recognize these girls can play!!
We are lifting the Bishop Miege Community up in prayer as they mourn and heal over the loss of legendary basketball coach Terry English. We send our deep and heartfelt sympathy to the English Family and
@BishopMiege_GBB
team.
Saints win the Flyers Invitational beating a tough Francis Howell in the championship! Congrats to
@kschenck10
and
@LailaBoylan
who made the All-Tournament team!
Awesome to see two of our players recognized as finalist for 5A player of the year and for Defensive player of the year! Way to go
@sydneyw93240242
and
@cgoodwin2023
Congrats to our All EKL Players as Voted by the Coaches:
1st Team
Molly Harnett and Beatrice Culliton
3rd Team
Madison Skelton and Sydney Watts
Honorable Mention
Charlotte O’Keefe and Sameera Elmsari
Shoutout to the three seniors.
#4peat
. Does not get much better than that.
25 straight trips to state. 14 Championship games. 8 titles!
Tradition is a great thing. Well done girls!
State Semi Final today at 3 o’clock in Emporia vs an excellent McPherson team that will have lots of support from fans & students. Only a 1.5 hour drive, hundreds drove further to Pittsburg for Football, so we know you can get to Emporia to support and see a great game!!!
To our Saints Community: YOU made this so very special. We could feel YOUR energy and we deeply appreciate you showing up!TOGETHER we got this done! Go Saints!
#statebound
@STAsaints
@GoAquinasSaints
Congrats to some pretty amazing people! We are so proud of Coach Hetzel and Coach Harbour! Their love and passion for both the game and their players, goes above and beyond! It’s awesome to see you both recognized for all that you have done and continue to do!
Congratulations to current and former Saints Basketball coaches for their GKCBCA Awards!
⭐️Rick Hetzel : Hall of Fame
⭐️Mark Nusbaum: Hall of Fame
⭐️Bob Harbour: Walt Tylicki Memorial Award
⭐️Sean Reilly: Tom Colwell Lifetime Achievement Award
COUNTDOWN TO 400- Tonight’s victory was Coach Hetzel 397th victory. In his 20th year of coaching, he has a record of 397-80, for an 83% winning percentage!!
Calling on all
@STAsaints
still in town to come support as we go for our 🏆3-Peat. Looking to become just 4th school in State History for Girls BB to accomplish that!!!
Playing Bishop Carroll , 4 o’clock at Topeka Expocentre. It just a 1 hour drive, so you’ll be home by 7 🙂
Team would like to say THANK YOU to all the fans that showed up!!!
Great to have so much support from parents and families that have no direct ties to the program but were there cheering as we made history.
#AquinasPride
GAME DAY 5:30 today vs Miege at STA.
#1
5A & 2 time defending State 🏆vs # 1 4A & 4 time defending State 🏆. Many girls on both teams will play D1 or D2 ball in college. Top two teams in the State in Topeka Capital Journal Super 10 rankings. Doesn’t get much better than this!
Barring a change regarding letting crowds in OR canceling of games, we NEED a big crowd tomorrow in Emporia at 3 o’clock vs McPherson. Had GREAT support last year in this battle between 2 of the most successful schools in Kansas GBB history, PLEASE bring it again Aquinas Nation!!